Alexander Doty, Making Things Perfectly Queer

"While we acknowledge that homosexuals as well as heterosexuals can operate or mediate from within straight cultural spaces and positions--after all, most of us grew up learning the rules of straight culture--we have paid less attention to the proposition that basically heterocentrist texts can contain queer elements, and basically heterosexual, straight-identified people can experience queer moments. And these people should be encouraged to examine and express those moments as queer, not as moments of "homosexual panic," or temporary confusion, or as unfortunate, shameful, or sinful lapses in judgement or taste to be ignored, repressed, condemned, or somehow explained away within and by straight cultural politics--or even within and by gay or lesbian discourses" (Doty, Making Thing Perfectly Queer: 3).